Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                February 1945 look at that Waldorf salad stars and Middle East a dream of the sort that Cis whip up while thinking of Home in a was served to a pair of yanks at Hie Waldo Fastoria reacting from the left of the Chicken is Martin 20 of a Ranger who was wounded six times and holds the Silver Star and the Bronze Star actress Anne who i getting plenty of help from her and Reginald White of a 50year old fighter who has town 36 combat missions and 51 and who holds the dec and air medal with four the Oscar hovering about in the rear is Waldorf Acme freezing empty of Cru r Sisi Senate committee turns Down Wallace 14 to 5 Washington a Senate com Mittee has voted 14 to five to reject president Roosevelt nomination of Henry Wallace for Secretary of Commerce and will re port the nomination unfavourably to the at the same the committee also approved a devised authored by George of geor shifting rec and the govern ments other multimillion lending agencies from the Commerce the nomination was to be re ported unfavourably to Senate on but it cannot be acted upon until the ensuing meet ing of Senate unless consent of the membership is explained wallaces rejection came Des Pite Strong chiefly from Treasury Morgenthau who described Wallace As a Yankee businessman with the horse sense to recognize that we Are living in a world of change and who has Lone his country genuine service in offering a Concrete program for 00 million postwar a committee of More than 100 businessmen also issued a state ment supporting Wallace and opposing the shift of loan operations from the of a reported that supporters of Wallace Are hoping for president Roosevelt Pepper of who has led the fight for wallaces stated the fact is that there Are not Kaiser to head new drive tinman who builds has National chairmanship of the United nations clothing col Lection for Relief of the needy in War torn the drive will get under Way in american people will lie asked to contribute pounds of used enough votes in Senate to confirm Wallace unless the lending agencies Are separated from the Commerce but he expressed Confidence that if the president would exert his Wallace would be a this View was shared reluctantly by a group of senators who dont want to see Wallace in Public office at the president has issued no statement on the committees re but on monday dinner in Honor a message from said in part its at a testimonial of read Tho it and its need Henry Wallace now More than i count on his his Wisdom and his Cou in the events which transpired prior to the thumbs Wal lace appeared before the commit tee to fight for his nomination and defend himself against Jesse Jones Jones bowed out of his Commerce and Federal loan which he was asked to re striking out at who Char ged that Wallace is incompetent for the Wallace described Jones As a Penny Pincher with limited vision and stunted Ima said his poli cies would be for Benefit of All citizens and inferred that he was under attack by big business that the Issue at stake is big Busi Ness versus Little Wallace testified that he would accept the Cabinet Post even though it be shorn of the vast Federal financial Empire formerly entrusted to after Wallace Over toil of Louisiana motioned that the nomination be reported a vote was it jail 32 Detroi ters for Gas racketeering Detroit sentences totalling 113 months in jail and in fines were imposed by Federal judge Frank Picard last week on 32 persons accused of dealing in counterfeit gasoline or of Selling legitimate asserting that the american offensive which went to the Bor Ders of Germany was halted be cause of Lack of gasoline the judge said you didst Hurt the German army when you took gasoline off the that was badly Boss Pendergast Dies Kansas pen the famous Boss Tom of the powerful Kansas City socratic machine which made and broke senators and died of heart disease after a Long ill he was in Pendergast had served a in a Federal prison for in come tax new Coal shortage descended with full Force in the northeastern states last affecting vital rail traffic and leaving thousands shivering in the Winters most severe cold As crisis went its worst phase last there seemed to be no immediate respite from the hampering the delivery of fuel was an airtight rail pm clamped on everything but War priority items and War front this went into Friday 26 at Midnight in order to meet one of the worst transportation crises in Eastern Seaboard rail to was Cau sed chiefly by continuing blizzards and severe it is that the rail embargo ended on thus permitting the movement of Coal to the in 17 East Central states and the District of fuel administrator Harold Ickes had placed restrictions on Coal deliver Banning Sale of Coal to any court rules Ward seizure is illegal Chicago the hotly disputed Montgomery Case reached a new phase this week As judge Phillip Sullivan ruled that the governments seizure of company do deities was there Are that the government intends to renew Alhert Woll announced immediately that the decision would be War labor Board chairman William Davis declared that the entire system of dealing with wartime labor Dis Putes is jeopardized by the Deci judge Sullivan stated that he reached his conclusions with considerable but he held that the president lacked the a under the War disputes act or As to order the he also upheld wards Contention that the com Pany is not a War production Plant within the meaning of the was u to five against gis froth when hometowns go dry Washington a group of soldiers protested to the supreme court last week that it was unfair for their Home county to hold a local option election on which was won by a time when Many eligible voters were in the forces and could not cast the election in question was held in Johnson voted against permitting the Sale of spi vinous or Ronalt liquors for three while voted the in their told the supreme court that absentees who Are eligible to vote numbered More than the double majority obtained by the they sited that no provision was made to receive their votes and argued that As they were thus denied equal Protection of Laws in violation of the 14th amendment to the the Kentucky court of appeals has ruled against the soldiers Corn Illinois Solon Dies Frank Reid who served in Congress from the eleventh District in Illi Nois for six died Pooch this is right now the most talked of dog in reportedly owned by Faye Emerson actress and recent Bride of Tuott the Pooch was said to have been shipped on an army necessitating the removal of three servicemen who were travelling on a c Blaze was reported to have an a ins families who had More than a five Day emergency measures most Large cities took immediate emergency measures Hin utne the Board of health declared that a state of emergency existed As the shipping embargo was Felt keenly it the r v Ella Guardia issued a proclamation for bidding the delivery of Coal to 2 of amusement within g eater new York without his written he included lib colleges and uni As Well As Heaters amusement libraries and museums in Albany and Syracuse were ordered so est a Syracuse the ban was extended to nonessential restaurants and food stores were exempted from the All Coal supplies in mass were ordered pooled and distributed from police head in the cites delivery trucks were restricted to extreme where families Are Coal or even in Pittsburgh the shortage was even Felt in the bituminous Center of Pitts thigh where retail Coal merchants left their Yards open on sunday and permitted shivering customers to pick up Loose Coal in Bushel was also hard Heaters and taverns were re Quested to close indefinitely As result of to spreading famine in the Northern Region of the the consumption of electric cur rent was also to be reduced in private Homes by 10 per cent m order to enable the diversion of scarce Coal to War plants which Are running eight deaths have already resulted from subzero weather in new in where the Mercury was bumping at the three below Oil in the weather stations ther Zograph preventing the weather Man from recording the most of the fight taken out of National service Washington amid a tangle of the work or jail Bill skidded into the House of repro sentatives1 this with the fight provision the National service Bill would now jail or Fine every Man who refuses to take or keep a War Job on order of his local draft preliminary floor skirmishes indicate that there will be a hard fight Over the so urgently requested by the presi to place every needed Man Bev Veen 18 and 45 into some phase of War the Bill was brought to the House floor by acting chairman Eugene Cox in introducing asserted that it fails woefully to satisfy the demand of Public opinion which is now backing a work or fight less than an hour of debate left no doubt that controversial Bill is due for a Stormy going the objectors indicated that they would ignore pleas to pass the Bill immediately without quiz difference of opinion said it is unnecessary others said they would introduce amendments changing its entire complexion other representatives complained that the measure does not go far congressmen pro at least three raised to attach an ant closed shop an identical which would protect transferred workers from having to join the was dropped from the Ori Ginal authored by an Drew said that it would be other legislators via Amend ments to the work or Jan would seek racial and religious Equality for All workers in India to stave off such which would inevitably delay Pas Sage of the the House labor committee forthwith set up a fair employment practices committee As a permanent government defeat its purpose a Senate which is meanwhile considering a Compro Mise has received pro tests similar to those offered on the House All protests have the identical theme that work or jail legislation will Cut War thereby defeating its on the other ten or 12 government agencies have advised that the Bill is necessary and War reporting to the House on War Materiel indicated need for the the sentiment of the champions of the Bill was summed up by Kwing who stated that the armed forces need men from Industry to help meet the draft quota by july without that work or jail he i dont know when you Are going to get Navy okays negro nurses York the Navy Jias disclosed that it plans to accept negro nurses for rear adv William chief of the Bureau of Medicine and sur stated if negro nurses i will be Given the same consideration As White